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WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a 4-stanza poem, using the word ‘stretch’ in each stanza.

Perhaps you could use the repetition to shift the meaning of the word each time it is used, or to emphasise a theme.

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Sink or Swim

Rain boy

1 min read

Hands outstretched The only thing to grasp; my escaping breath How did it come to this? It would be a stretch to say I don’t know Though pushed into the deep end, T’was I who approached the depths The plunge is only natural. Father Time stretched a hand to me, but seemed it futile, leaving Mother Nature to her cause Her embrace smothering. I hear the sound of the stretcher Overlapping echoes Flashing lights Hands all over me.

Poetry

Stretch In Time

Feywild

1 min read

The stretch in time Want me to die To do you hold ties It’s time to say goodbye Why you hold my hand Try to stretch out your love But yet I am going away Forever till the end I see your life in a line It stretches or shortens At the minute Soon you will be next to me Your time has passed And I stretch out my hand To bring you in Into the gates of hope

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Romance

Longing.

𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴

1 min read

Minutes stretch into days, In the blink of an eyes. Wishing for us to stay, But time just flies. Days stretch into months, In the moments shared. This cannot just be this once, Gone were the moments scared. Months stretch into a decade, In the life we gave. This trust does not fade, But the crest of a wave. Decades stretch into a lifetime, In our legacy we prize. We are last to the line, But it’s time we despise. … Love you baby 🖤

Poetry

Drama

Love

MusefulHeart🫀

1 min read

Love is such a word it shows utmost emotion It is a stretch for the human mind to comprehend Love is much a feeling of warmth and safety of someones afrms stretching around you in an embrace Love is that of flowers That stretch across feilds Kissing the groud Holding the skies tears Love is around us In everything we see Stretching throughout the galaxy Love is quite beautiful Don’t you think?

Poetry

A Stretch

🩵 Skye 🩵

1 min read

Maybe it’s a stretch to say you like me A stretch to think that you’ll notice me A stretch to look at your sweater and think I’ll wear it someday Or maybe all these dreams Are worth something And it’s not a stretch at all Maybe your arms will hold onto mine and stretch far in the air as we laugh I know it’s a stretch to imagine these fantasies But maybe one day you’ll notice How much I reach for you Stretch my arms to their extent Trying to get you to notice me I know it’s a stretch But it’s one that keeps me happy 🩵

Romance

Fatal Lullaby

sarcana

1 min read

i stand from my bed, to stretch for the day ahead. i fly away from home. it’s the roads that make it lonely, almost stretching endlessly before me. yet i always find my way, where the hungry flies dance ballet. i stretch my hand out to the white swan, as glistening death crowds her pond. it’s the music that kept her here, following everywhere far and near. but her soul is gone, the music still stretches on. now the dying hear a symphony.

Poetry

The Gardener

Jawafra

1 min read

Her back bent to planting Spring after spring Until winter stiff Froze its stretch A long stretch Her life of planting Seeds still growing Four children and ten grand Her memory lost Like an autumnal dandelion head Seeds overstretched, blown Into the wind, nothing left Her days done, family bereft Only one seed left to plant Her body stretched Into the earth.

Home Stretch

Clementine Chesterfield

1 min read

Toddlers wanting snacks to eat Stretch on tippy toes to reach the cupboard School kids wanting to impress their teacher Stretch their arm up high to be called on Young adults wanting to impress each other Stretch the truth about their accomplishments Adults paying for lifestyle, children, college, stretch their income for survival

The Art of Stretching

a.k

1 min read

I stretch in the grass, My hands lay flat, Flowers smell like sweet perfume, And even the wind blows away my fume. My fingers stretch apart, They slide without fault upon the grass, Curling up and falling down. My arms curve above my head Like a I’m holding up the land. My legs stretch down, And my neck curves around, Around at the sky and Around as I lie. The land stretches on farther than I can see, Farther than I can imagine. My heart flutters, As I think once again, Of stretching out in the grass.

Poetry

Yoga Class

HM Violet

1 min read

Stretch the truth just a little So that I can believe in my ability to bend this way Like a pretzel Or the “truth” you spoke this morning That anyone could stretch in temperatures like these And find themselves refreshed Like cold water On my ever drying tongue To compliment my form is a bit of a stretch As I am tilting in the front row Like a buffoon Juxtaposing the gods around me I glance at you, and the joy across your toes Causing them to wiggle Like caterpillars Or my stretching receptiveness

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